Shiva Kerdel
Application Security Specialist
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolShiva Kerdel is an application security specialist and team-lead developer with nine years of hands-on experience building and hardening web and backend systems across Dutch SaaS and enterprise clients. Currently leading engineering and security efforts at LetsTalk.nl while also consulting through Power to Logic, he blends practical leadership with day-to-day coding and secure development practices. His background ranges from low-level hardware integrations and ERP modernization to API work and platform development for customers like Van Mossel, demonstrating versatility across stacks and deployment environments. Trained as a Certified Ethical Hacker and holding a software engineering degree, he brings formal security knowledge to lifecycle processes, code reviews and incident-mitigation. Colleagues know him for resolving tricky authentication and security defects early in projects and for smoothing release workflows through stronger version control and CI practices. Based in North Brabant, Shiva favors pragmatic, auditable solutions that balance product velocity with risk reduction.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBO Niveau 4 Application Development, MBO Niveau 4 Application Development at Zoomvliet CollegeBachelor's degree Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Bachelor's degree Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at Avans University of Applied SciencesCertified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) at EC-Council University
Dutch, English
Github Skills (75)
jquery-plugin9
php9
magento8
adobe8
launcher8
ecommerce8
silverstripe7
console7
json-rpc7
temperature6
mvc6
jquery6
minecraft6
affiliates6
mvc-framework6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
s-kerdel/ASPUnit
May 2020 - May 2020
A Classic ASP Unit Testing Framework
Contributions:2 releases, 9 pushes, 2 tags in 2 days
testing-frameworktestingaspunit-testing-frameworkunit
s-kerdel/silverstripe-mailgun-sync
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Mailgun Mailer, Messaging and Webhook handling for Silverstripe
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
maileremailsenderwebhooksilverstripe
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